Nagesh Kumar is Director of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, India. Prior to taking up this role in May 2021, Professor Kumar served for 12 years as Director at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP), Bangkok. During 2002-09, Nagesh served as the Director-General of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a policy think-tank of the Government of India. During 1993-98, Nagesh served on the faculty of the United Nations University-MERIT (then UNU/INTECH) in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Boston University Global Development Policy Centre. Nagesh has also served on the boards of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India, the International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva; the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS), Kathmandu. He has published 18 books and over 120 peer-reviewed papers covering themes in industrialization, FDI, innovation, trade, and sustainable development. A PhD from the Delhi School of Economics, Nagesh received the Exim Bank's first International Trade Research Award in 1990, and the Global Development Network (GDN) Research Medal in 2000.
Satyaki Roy works as Associate Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, India. His initial research focuses on industrial clusters in India and the nature of spatial concentration of production in the context of late industrialization. Satyaki has worked and published extensively on diverse issues related to labour and employment, structural change in India and the emerging trends in manufacturing sector and political economy of informality. His current areas of interest include industrialization in India, labour intensive sectors, global production network and its implication on industrial growth in developing countries. Satyaki's books include 'Small and Medium Enterprises in India: Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters' (2013) and 'Contours of Value Capture: India's Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development' (2020).